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… Arie Dirk Bestebreurtje, born April, 1916 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Father, Anton D. Bestebreurtje moved the … he volunteered for the OSS. He became a Jedburgh, a group of fewer than 300 men within the OSS. Their job was to drop in teams of 3 … and another daughter in 1954. By 1954 Arie could have been well on his way to a lucrative law career. A bona fide war hero with a top flight …
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… Mrs. Nancy Archibald, a War Bride, lives in Victoria BC. In August 2011, she celebrated her 90th birthday as well as the 65th anniversary of her arrival in Canada at Pier 21. She …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian Introduction: Origins of World Refugee Year In the spring of 1958, four young individuals affiliated with the Bow … A Sympathetic Interest in the Plight of Refugees: World Refugee Year in Canada …
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… As a federal Crown Corporation, the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21 is subject to both the Access … Access to Information Act Requests Contact the ATIP Coordinator Ways to make a request: 1) Submit online (formal requests only): The ATIP Online Request Service offers a convenient way to make: an access to information request a personal information …
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… A grade 3 class is enjoying one of the Museum’s temporary exhibitions called Kids Celebrate! They are in their school uniforms. The exhibition focuses on 12 special times of … each is a day or a period of time celebrated by kids and families in Canada. For each of the celebrations, there is a station with …
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… Day 1 is our Canada 150 project, supported by RBC Foundation , that brings to life 150 years of immigrants’ “Day 1” experiences. Curator's Tours: Transcript Welcome to Canada: Day 1. This exhibition looks at the very first … our oral history collection and powerful images and artwork. Transcript In the Arrivals section of Canada: Day 1 we have this amazing photo …
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… I did during World War 2. When I was 19 years old, I was notified, as were all others my age in England, to attend an interview to decide what I would be doing to help the war effort. There were choices like factories, government office jobs, land army, the … they would switch on their special equipment and would hear a note (in someone’s mind similar to an Oboe) and the note would change if he …
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… and for being able to provide a future for his children. As a young boy in Holland, I was sick with bronchitis and the family Doctor felt … the Atlantic was a very difficult one. It was very rough seas when we crossed, and I can still visualize the waves coming on part of the …
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… fallacies like hasty generalization and exceptionalism. The steps we take as historians to make meaning — establishing significance , … and change , assessing cause and consequence — cannot work if we distort the past with a present-oriented lens. There are many examples of how we fail to take historical perspective in judging the past, but the …
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… by Jan Raska, PhD, Historian (Updated November 5, 2020) Introduction Welcome to my first blog here at the Canadian Museum of … I’d like to share a bit of our collection with you today. After searching for interesting historical tidbits, I came across a few children’s ship and …